I was pleasantly surprised by the number of people who have downloaded tttscale, hopefully it has proven useful. I decided to do a bit more work on it and have now added the option to produce either a .dxf file, or generate a gcode file directly.
This of course necessitated adding a number of additional options for: final depth cut increment surface safe z feed rate This is in addition to the original flags for setting the x and y offset as well as the scale factor based on the requested x length. Currently the gcode produced is very straight forward, in the next version I will include code loops to reduce the overall size of the gcode file. A word on the file size generated, if you specify a small cut increment and a large final depth as well as a long string of a few dozen characters, the file will become quite massive. For now I don't see this as a major problem as normally in engraving only a few passes are required. I am sure that someone will want to test the limits, so if you enter something like: truetype-tracer-dxf -f /usr/share/fonts/truetype/somefontname.ttf "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aide of the party" | tttscale -s -l250 -d 6 -c 0.01 -u 0.00 -r 3.0 -f400 > bigfile.ngc You will have a file that will probably overload emc2! Why you would want to do this is beyond me as the result would be making 600 passes of the text! Hope this utility is useful to some of you. It's at http://co-japan.com/metalworking and listed as the development version. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
